Dominican Republic


The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
In the Time of the Butterflies
Clap When You Land
This Is How You Lose Her
Dominicana
How the García Girls Lost Their Accents
The Feast of the Goat
Drown
The Farming of Bones
Before We Were Free
The Cemetery of Untold Stories
Tentacle
Family Lore
Yo!
The Color of My Words
The reader who is only superficially familiar with Caribbean affairs may find the materials of this volume strange. The extent to which violence, both open and covert, is a constant factor in the life of the region may cause surprise. The incongruous and rather unreal quality of many events, whether fanciful or farcical in appearance, may also prove unexpected. If the reader is inclined to doubt the authenticity of certain events, viewing them as too implausible to be true, he may be assured tha ...more
Robert D. Crassweller

Barry Gifford
BARRY GIFFORD, Author of "Wild at Heart", on DANGEROUS ODDS by Marisa Lankester: "Marisa Lankester's unique chronicle of high crimes and low company is as wild a ride as any reader is likely to be taken on. She was the lone woman in the eye of a predatory hurricane that blew across continents and devastated countless lives. That she survived is testament to her brains and bravery. The old-timers who invented violence as a second language contended that nothing is deadlier than the female, t ...more
Barry Gifford

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